A Catalogue Raisonné of
Francis Towne (1739-1816)
by Richard Stephens

About the Catalogue

Preface

About the Catalogue

1772-1780
Welsh tour • West Country sketches • Studio Watercolours • Oil Paintings • Compositions and Copies

Section 1

Early Work, 1772-80

1780-1781
Rome • Naples • Tivoli • Albano • the North Italian lakes • Switzerland • Geneva & the Chamonix Valley

Section 2

On the Continent, 1780-1

1781–ca. 1805
Lake District tour • West Country sketches • London & New Forest • Studio Watercolours • Oil Paintings • Compositions & Copies

Section 3

England, 1781-ca. 1805

1806–1816
Sketchbooks of 1809, 1810, 1811, 1813, 1812-15 and 1815 • Oil Paintings and Exhibits

Section 4

Retirement, 1806-16

Pupils & Copyists
Prints after Towne • Copies by John White Abbott • Miss Maingey • Merivale family • Other pupils, identified & unidentified

Section 5

Pupils and Copyists

Doubtful Works
Works with a claim to authorship by Towne but whose attribution is not settled

Section 6

Doubtful Works

Lost Works
Watercolours and oil paintings not seen since Towne's own lifetime, and now presumed destroyed

Section 7

Lost Works

Unidentifiable Works
Stray pieces of evidence that cannot yet be linked with any currently-identified work

Section 8

Unidentifiable Works

We welcome your comments, corrections and new information. We are especially keen to identify 'lost', 'untraced' and 'unidentifiable' works.

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Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome, 21 January – 14 August 2016

British Museum, London

Light, time, legacy: Francis Towne’s watercolours of Rome